Making a movie in one week sounds hard. Making a two-minute movie in one week sounds easy, but it really wasn’t. My group, Alex, Syd, Mika, and I, all had to come up with an original idea for a thriller movie and then compose it in just one week. We all knew that this was going to be quite a challenge, as it was. Many ideas were bounced around, and we really couldn’t decide on just one. After lots of thinking, we came up with a great plan, or what we thought would be a great plan. We had our first movie idea fully set in a pool. We were going to have three girls playing in a pool, and slowly, one by one, they disappear until the last one is dragged down in the water. Now, in theory, this sounded like a good idea.

We all got to the pool and realized that it was absolutely freezing and how hard it was going to be to film this. We really struggled throughout this process, and it took us around two hours to film in the dark. The next day, we put together all the footage, and it turned out that many of the shots we got were not up to standard. This is when we all started to panic and rethink our entire plan. We had already drawn up each scene and completed a storyboard filled with 50 shots. We were quite upset when we figured out that we would have to completely restart. This was a completely new learning experience for me, and I really found it quite challenging. The whole situation was very stressful as there were only three days left to completely finish a new movie. We started brainstorming new ideas and we were able to come up with a more simple yet creative idea.

We got to filming the very next day and we made some great progress. We were lucky enough to get an extension a couple days so that we could finish. Our new idea was similar to the first one, but based in the forest. At this point I just wanted to be done, and have a film I was proud of and wanted to show the class. This however, wasn’t going to happen for a bit. It took us about an hour to get all the shots which was a big improvement compared to our first film. With the help of a friend, we started editing right away. Our group really wanted to focus on having smooth and clean shots put together well, and i think we were really able to accomplish this. Check out our video below. ⬇️